Palomar College Library
Online Research Databases
Science & Technology Databases
Health Source: Nursing (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
This provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Health Source: Consumer (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for over 190 journals, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
CINAHL (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Provides full-text, indexing, and/or abstracting for current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1937.
PubMed Central Open Database  Display Database Description
This is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journals, available from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
GreenFILE (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
This is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
Journal citations and abstracts in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. Some full text articles are available, others may be found by checking the Library's electronic, print, or microfilm periodical holdings.
Alt Healthwatch (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
This focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, providing full text for articles from more than 140 journals and other publications.
JSTOR Open Database  Display Database Description
Includes the following collections: Arts & Sciences (collections I, II, III, VII, Music, Language & Literature), Life Sciences, and Public Health Reports. Full-text backfiles (up to the latest three to five years) of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, environmental sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Tips on using JSTOR.
PsycARTICLES (APA/EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
This contains comprehensive full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from 63 journals from the American Psychological Association (APA) and related organizations, from 1894 to present.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
Provides coverage of more than 576 full text journals, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and
Military & Government (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
Provides current news for all branches of the military. Includes full text from over 300 periodicals, and other publications. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 400 magazines.
Encyclopedia of Animals (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
This offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.Provides full text for hundreds of regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns.
Safari Tech Books Online Open Database  Display Database Description
This is a searchable database of current information technology, programming, and business books and manuals. The database includes imprints from the most recent 3 years. Additionally, Safari includes a reference section for general knowledge workers/users who need quick answers to questions about desktop applications.
Library, Info Sci, & Tech Abstracts (EBSCO) Open Database  Display Database Description
More than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings are indexed in LISTA. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
ScienceDirect (Trial) Open Database  Display Database Description
ScienceDirect is available as a trial subscription.